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Using megaphones for amplification they shouted epithets at those entering the service such as “Jesus is a homo”. They also mockingly carried an upside down pink cross. In a news release, Bash Back referred to Mt. Hope Church as “a deplorable anti-queer mega church.” They further elaborated their disdain for the Christian community at Mt. Hope on their web site. In a news release, Bash Back referred to Mt. Hope Church as “a deplorable anti-queer mega church.” They further elaborated their disdain for the Christian community at Mt. Hope on their web site. LANSING, Michigan (Catholic Online) - Dr. Dave...

This is what we're up against. On Sunday morning, amidst worshiping congregants and following unifying prayers that our President-elect be granted wisdom as he prepares to lead our nation through difficult global, social and economic challenges, the Michigan left declared open war on peaceful church goers. They did it with banners, chants, blasphemy, by storming the pulpit, by vandalizing the church facility, by potentially defiling the building with lewd, public, sex acts and by intentionally forcing physical confrontations with worshipers. This didn't take place in some dystopian, post modern work of fiction and it didn't take place in San Francisco...

Dr. Dave Williams is the Pastor of a large evangelical Protestant Church in Lansing, Michigan called the Mount Hope Church. The Church web site informs the visitor of Pastor Williams that “He has served for 25 years, leading the church in Lansing from 226 to over 4000 today.” The Pastor is repspected in the broader Christian, religious and civic community and the Church has extensive outreaches. This past Sunday, during a Worship Service at the Church, a group of loud and intentionally disruptive homosexual activists stood outside of the sanctuary of Mount Hope dressed in strange pink attire. Using megaphones...

A gay anarchist group infiltrated the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County Sunday morning, disrupting a service by pulling a fire alarm, dropping leaflets and yelling at parishioners, a pastor said. The group, Bash Back, was simultaneously picketing outside the church, beating on buckets and using a megaphone to shout “Jesus was a homo” and other slogans as confused churchgoers continued to enter the building.

More than 1,000 supporters lined up this morning to hear presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's scheduled 11 a.m. address on U.S. energy policies, an issue that has heated up the campaign in the face of $4-a-gallon gas and sniping with Republican foe John McCain over offshore oil drilling. Dave Newbury, 39, of Lansing, was among the ticket holders. He said he's a longime Democrat who'll also vote for Obama because "I'm half black like he is, so I like that." Newbury said he would support a windfall profits tax on oil companies. "It seems like the oil companies are...

On September 27, 2007, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Michigan), Dawud Walid, was presented with a "special recognition" award by the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan, Virg Bernero. This took place only two months after Walid publicly defended two terror-related charities and during a federal trial against leaders of another terror charity, for which CAIR was named a co-conspirator. Michigan is home to a significant radical Islamist community. One of its shining stars is an individual by the name of Dawud Walid. His activity within extremist Muslim groups is a matter of record."

From the Italian Vatican bulletino, Earl Boyea will be the fifth bishop of Lansing: "Il Papa ha nominato Vescovo di Lansing (U.S.A.) S.E. Mons. Earl A. Boyea, finora Vescovo titolare di Siccenna ed Ausiliare dell’arcidiocesi di Detroit. S.E. Mons. Earl A. Boyea." The Lansing diocese website has been updated. Mlive.com reports that Boyea, 56, will be installed as bishop at 2pm, April 29th in Lansing. Local ABC 12 has a frontpage graphic and a good accompanying biography: Bishop Boyea was born April 10, 1951. His home parish was Our Lady of the Lakes in Waterford where he attended the...

LANSING, Mich. - A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in the city in just over a month — and he is also connected to an assault on a woman whose dog ran the attacker off, police said. Local, state and federal investigators "have taken a collective sigh of relief," police Lt. Judy Horning said. The man, whose name was not released, was not expected to be charged or arraigned until at least Friday. "The despicable individual responsible for this heinous rampage through our community has been captured," Mayor Virg Bernero said. "Our nightmare...

Operation Completion Announces Guest Cities Dover – On Tuesday morning, the Operation Completion Central Advisory Panel (CAP) released the list of guest cities that will host pro-military rallies during the summer of 2006. The list that included seventeen cities in fourteen states and the District of Columbia was accompanies with a partial schedule that included the previously announced event in Sacramento, CA. The complete list included Sacramento, San Antonio, Richmond, Boise, Saint Paul, Indianapolis, Lansing, Columbus, San Diego, Houston, Denver, Tampa, Nashville, Atlanta, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Dates were given for Sacramento (May 12), Saint Paul (June...

The leader of the Clergy Forum of Greater Lansing - a group of 24 local black pastors - asked this morning for an extensive investigation into Eaton County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Lutz and all his cases involving African Americans. Melvin Jones, president of the group, was surrounded by about six pastors in front of West Town Plaza in Delta Township - where Lutz allegedly shot himself in the arm March 20, according to authorities. He blamed the incident on a fictitious black man. "We believe that the delicate balance of community trust has been broken by this incident and that...

Officer, Prosecutor And Bailiff Become Sick POSTED: 11:24 am EST January 13, 2006 LANSING, Mich. -- A man is in jail on assault charges after authorities say an assistant prosecutor, police officer and courtroom bailiff all got sick after shaking hands with him. John Ridgeway, 41, was in an Isabella County courthouse in Mount Pleasant last month on a misdemeanor charge of driving without insurance. He now faces three felony assault charges and up to six years in prison. After a Dec. 21 jury trial where he was found guilty on the misdemeanor charge, Ridgeway was observed pulling out a...

GENEVA, NY—A group of anti-war protesters who threw blood on a soldier, a recruiting station and the U.S. flag will deliver a lecture at Hobart and William Smith campuses today.According to a campus press release, the four Ithaca residents-- Daniel Burns, Peter DeMott, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady--are expected to address students on “the use of unconventional politics as a means for political organizing and resistance in a time of war and in a time of the Patriot Act.”In addition, the group’s sponsor, Professor Craig Rimmerman of the HWS political science department, hopes to ask the group "what they were...

BINGHAMTON, NY--The activities of supporters of four Ithaca-area protesters who throw blood on an American flag, a recruiting center and a soldier are expected to cost the City of Binghamton at least $15,000.00.News 10 Now reports that city officials were forced to spend at least that amount in overtime to provide security during the trial of Ithaca-area protesters, who dubbed themselves the "St. Patrick's Day Four."The four, Peter DeMott, Theresa Grady, Claire Grady and Daniel Burns, were tried in federal court in Binghamton earlier this month on charges ranging from conspiracy to vandalism.During the trial, various anti-war groups, made up...

BINGHAMTON, NY—A U.S. soldier has testified in federal court Tuesday (September 20) that he was splashed with human blood by anti-war protesters during a 2003 protest.The soldier, Staff Sgt. Rachon Montgomery, was working as an army recruiter on March 17, 2003, the day that four protesters threw their own blood around a recruiting center in Lansing, NY, a suburb of Ithaca. As a result of the incident, press reports indicate, Montgomery was tested for blood-borne illnesses such as HIV and hepatitis.In addition to Montgomery, the protesters also poured blood on the American flag, a military banner and the walls and...

UAW endorsements: Call us - we won't call you By THOMAS P. MORGAN The United Auto Workers’ candidate endorsement process is being called into question by Lansing office seekers who say they were never contacted by the union. The UAW recently endorsed Virg Bernero for mayor, and At-Large Councilman Brian Jeffries, 2nd Ward Councilwoman Sandy Allen and 4th Ward candidate Tim Kaltenbach for City Council. The UAW interviewed candidates for city office May 10, which was also the city’s filing deadline. The union interviewed the following candidates: —Mayor: Bernero, Tony Benavides, Lynne Martinez and Dale Abronowitz —City Council at-large: Jeffries,...

Bernero to enter race in bid to unseat Benavides State senator to file today for mayoral contest

Ex-Lansing detective admits drug theft 3/31/2005, 12:14 p.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former city police detective admitted in court that he stole prescription painkillers from an acquaintance's house last fall. Darren Duso, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking the OxyContin in return for a dismissal of more serious charges. He faces up to two years in prison when Ingham County Circuit Judge Paula Manderfield sentences him on May 4. The 15-year Lansing Police Department veteran resigned in November, one month after county sheriff's officials arrested him on charges of stealing drugs from the Dansville house....

ITHACA NY--The Saint Patrick's Day Four -- four protesters from Ithaca who poured their own blood onto a local army recruiting station were indicted by a U.S. Federal Court Friday. According to the Ithaca Journal, the protesters will face charges of conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States. The incident happened on March 17th, 2003, when Clare Grady, Peter DeMott, Teresa Grady and Daniel Burns smeared their own blood on a recruiting station in the town of Lansing. Even though they admitted they did it, their first trial ended in a hung jury last April in Tompkins County...

LANSING -- Prompted by comments this weekend by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Michigan family values organization Saturday said it has invited a national veterans group to bring former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument to Lansing and will seek the Democratic governor's official sponsorship of a temporary display of the monument in the state Capitol rotunda. Granholm, in comments broadcast by a Lansing public affairs television show, "endorsed Friday the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, including the state Capitol," the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday. http://www.freep.com/news/mich/granholm12e_20050212.htm The Free Press reported that during an...

Man crashes into Lansing apartments, triggers gas explosion 2/8/2005, 5:13 p.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man crashed his car into an apartment building, rupturing a natural gas line and causing an explosion and fire that injured several people Tuesday afternoon, authorities say. There was no immediate word of the driver's condition, said state police Lt. P.J. Riegle. "It apparently did cause some major damage to the apartment building," Riegle told WDIV-TV in Detroit. "There were some injuries."